ROSETTA-ORBITER OSIWAC: Georeferenced Comet 67P Images

NASA's Rosetta spacecraft OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera captured georeferenced images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The dataset covers the period from September 2 to September 23, 2014, during the PRELANDING mission phase. This version V1.0 is the first version, corrected after an October 2018 external peer review.

Use Cases

• Create precise surface maps of comet 67P based on pixel-precise georeferencing information.
• Analyze comet surface changes over the PRELANDING phase based on the specified time range.
• Validate spacecraft navigation and instrument calibration using derived georeferencing data products.

Strengths

• Data is CODMAC level 5, indicating it is a derived data product.
• Time coverage is precisely defined from 2014-09-02T10:00:00.000 to 2014-09-23T09:59:59.000.
• Dataset has undergone external peer review, leading to a corrected V1.0 version.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Acquired by the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft.

Time Range

2014-09-02T10:00:00.000 to 2014-09-23T09:59:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 10:45:41.487322; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1 (1969 R1)